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Wealthsimple Adopts Eventus’ Validus Platform for Trade Surveillance

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Wealthsimple, one of Canada’s fastest growing financial platforms, has deployed the Validus platform from Eventus, the trade surveillance and financial risk solutions provider, to conduct trade surveillance across asset classes. Wealthsimple manages over $50 billion in assets and serves more than three million clients, spanning trading, saving, and investing services.

The firm continues to expand its global footprint, recently securing trade surveillance, algorithmic monitoring and market risk mandates from a broad spectrum of market participants across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. Eventus also plans to roll out a suite of enhancements to Validus in 2025, including a new AI-driven initiative built on large language model (LLM) technology.

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